Anna College case: NCW assails govt. for letting a ‘felony’ roam varsity campus; SIT begins probe into case

Robust condemnation: A bunch of girls advocates had submitted a illustration to the NCW, demanding stringent motion towards the accused. File picture
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The 2-member fact-finding committee of the Nationwide Fee for Ladies (NCW) on Tuesday left for New Delhi after its two-day go to to town in reference to the sexual assault on a scholar on the Anna College campus.

Its members — Mamta Kumari, member of the NCW, and Praveen Dixit, former DGP of Maharashtra — arrived within the metropolis on Monday. Whereas leaving, Ms. Kumari and Mr. Dixit blamed the State authorities for permitting the accused within the case, who has felony circumstances towards him, to roam freely on the college campus.

The crew members interacted with the college authorities, the complainant and her members of the family. They inspected the scene of crime. In addition they met Governor R.N. Ravi on the Raj Bhavan on Monday.

A bunch of girls advocates led by Ok.M. Nalinishree submitted a illustration to the NCW, demanding stringent motion towards the accused and steps to guard college students on the campus. The crew can be submitting its report back to NCW Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar.

In the meantime, the three-member all-woman Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT), fashioned on the orders of the Excessive Courtroom, and comprising Deputy Commissioners of Police Bhukya Sneha Priya, Ayman Jamal and S. Brinda, started its probe into the case and the leak of the First Data Report, officers stated.

EPS flays DMK

AIADMK normal secretary Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami hit out on the DMK authorities for its alleged makes an attempt to “protect somebody” from being booked within the case. “Why ought to Ministers for Legislation, Larger Schooling, and Social Welfare get so labored up? Who’re they attempting to guard? There’s a suspicion that somebody near them is concerned within the case,” Mr. Palaniswami instructed reporters on the AIADMK headquarters in Chennai.

Evaluating the DMK authorities’s strategy in direction of circumstances of sexual assault with that of his authorities, he recalled that when the Pollachi sexual assault and blackmails surfaced, he had received the case transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The current regime, nevertheless, had challenged the Madras Excessive Courtroom’s order of handing over a POCSO case regarding a woman in Anna Nagar to the CBI, he identified.

BJP rally

BJP Tamil Nadu president Ok. Annamalai has introduced that his social gathering’s ladies’s wing would take out a rally from Madurai to Chennai on January 3, condemning the ruling DMK over the case.

“Makes an attempt are being made by the ruling authorities to cowl up the reality within the case, because the accused is a member of the DMK. Our ladies’s wing members will [take out a] rally. Upon reaching Chennai, they are going to meet Governor R.N. Ravi and submit a petition,” he posted on social media.

Individually, in a press convention, former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan questioned the silence of the DMK’s allies on the difficulty. “As a substitute of staging protests towards Amit Shah, VCK chief Thol. Thirumavalavan ought to criticise the federal government on this concern.”